CVE-2026-22707 PUBLISHED

Strapi Upload Plugin MIME Validation Bypass via Content API

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 08.01.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In Strapi versions prior to 5.33.3, the Upload plugin's Content API endpoints did not enforce the administrator-configured MIME type restrictions (plugin.upload.security.allowedTypes and deniedTypes). The same restrictions were correctly enforced on the Admin Panel upload path. The upload plugin's enforceUploadSecurity security check was invoked in the admin upload controller but was missing from the Content API controller. The Content API handlers uploadFiles and replaceFile (and the upload wrapper that dispatches to them) called the underlying upload service directly, bypassing both the magic-byte MIME detection and the configured allow/deny lists. An authenticated user with the Content API upload permission could therefore upload file types the administrator had explicitly disallowed, including HTML and SVG content. In deployments serving uploaded files from the same origin as the admin panel (default), an attacker could upload an HTML or SVG file that, when opened directly by an admin, executed JavaScript in the admin origin, enabling admin-session hijack and authenticated administrative actions against the admin API. The patch in version 5.33.3 introduces a shared prepareUploadRequest helper that wraps enforceUploadSecurity and is called from both the Content API and admin upload controllers, ensuring identical security policy enforcement on every upload entry point.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor strapi
Product strapi
Versions
  • Version < 5.33.3 is affected
Vendor strapi
Product @strapi/upload
Versions
  • Version < 5.33.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type CWE
  • CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure CWE